The Sin Bin • Re: coronavirus and sport ?
sally cinnamon wrote:
Arsenal fan here...
I would award Liverpool the title, it will always have an asterisk to this season but they are clearly ahead and deserve it. If it was a situation where say they were 3 pts ahead of Man City who had a game in hand and superior goal difference then I'd just say nobody wins.
I wouldn't have promotion or relegation. Effectively run the 2021 competitions on the same team lists as 2020, so Champions League / Europa League in 2021 would be based on qualification from the 2019 season.
IR80 wrote:
Liverpool have won the title, no asterisk required, we won it months ago.
The problem is the final standings of the rest, ultimately it will come xown to £££££, I hope we can finish the season, butI'd swap nomore professional sportof any kind for no more COVID-19.
I don’t really have a horse in this race. My wife supports Manchester United, being from that part of the world, and I have a bit of a soft spot (that I try not to remind her of) for Manchester City, having gone to a few games at Maine Road as a student in the 90s and early 00s, before I met her.
For me it is just a tidiness issue. I’ll really feel for Liverpool fans and the team if they aren’t awarded it because they have won it near as dammit. I don’t want to overdo the sympathy for the 30 year wait because for fans of most clubs that is nothing and Liverpool had two Euro Big Cups during that time, but it’d be less of a choker if they’d won it in ‘18-‘19. ‘Giving’ them it feels like it is an insult, as they’re so close to taking it, but if they can’t take it because the season is abandoned, whose is it to give anyway? Teams had only played three games in the 1939-40 season, so that isn’t sensible precedent.
I’d be happy for this season to be extended well into 2020, if necessary, delay the start of the next and use an abbreviated format for it. But there’s not guarantee that’ll be workable, of course.
Statistics: Posted by Mild Rover — Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:15 pm